When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.
There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.
In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.
Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion.
I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.
I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.
Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classics are China's religion.